This is a collection of dll's that alot of programs need to run smoothly. Use this pack to avoid the This program needs blah.dll to run prompts. (especially if you use a lot of freeware or portable apps)

Partial List Of Included Runtimes.
Auto-it
Loads of various runtimes you might need for ANY portable\legacy app
Openal

Very nice, this will likely become a regular part of my installs. One request / suggestion - I used to include AutoItX.dll in my now defunct addon pack. I'm not sure how many people ever actually need it, but I've found myself making a few VB scripts lately that call on it.

Yes maybe your right, as I don't run anything but XP here. But I've been comparing the diff between "Kels_Runtimes_Lite_addon_v1.1.CAB" and "Kels_Runtimes_addon_v1.1.CAB" (and a couple more runtime packs but irrelevant). I posted because:

So I have combined the two addons keeping all of the "safe" runtimes and throwing out all of the ones that already existed on your windows CD's.

And the ONLY difference between "lite" and version "1.0 of this pack" was the downgrade of a couple of newer files that were replaced on the cd. Version "1.1 of this pack" adds some extra runtimes.

What Kels says should be valid for all versions of windows for as he said compability reasons. So just because they are default on xp maybe they replace needed files on other versions.

Just as an example one of the runtimes replaced with the default xp version was olepro32.dll 5.2.3790.0 (from lite) wich is a win2003 file now it's 5.1.2600.2180 wich is default xp sp2 version.

I don't know wich version Windows 2003 have on the cd. So I can't say for sure that this pack is downgrading it.

I just think that the files that are duplicated should be removed if the goal was to not replace the defaults. Because it makes them kinda redundant.

Just trying to help, if i'm wrong I am.

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@Kel -
This may be a long shot, but does this runtime addon include the Cobol run-time library?

It is needed for an application called RealWorld (basically a very early predessor to QuickBooks and PeachTree). The app runs fine on pre-Windows 2000 computers, but errors out saying that the Cobol run time library is not installed if run on 2000/XP.

I've searched online and can't seem to find the library for download, but if this includes it that would be great. If not, oh well, still one computer running 98!

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